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Gervase Phinn - "your name sounds like a brand of French yoghurt" he is told - is appointed as school inspector in North Yorkshire, visiting schools in and around the picturesque Dales county. At the centre of this brilliantly woven tapestry of characters - which include fellow inspectors, the wildly eccentric caretaker, the sporting chairman of governors, the visiting Ministry bigwigs - are the devoted teachers and their completely unpredictable charges. In his invigorating and witty style,Gervase Phinn unfolds the dramas that occur during his first year as a school inspector, with many adventures beckoning around the corner...

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Amusing and serendipitous memories of Gervase Phinn's first year as County Inspector of Schools in North Yorkshire. The children he meets seem to be little adults, full of the language and prudence of their mostly land-worker parents; able to hold their own on the finer points of animal husbandry and farm management. "Don't yer know yer sheep then?" asks a serious little boy, aged six, whose reading aloud is perfect but whose interest is more in identifying the breed of sheep in the accompanying illustration, which leads to a serious classroom discussion.

Gervase Phinn meets head teachers, checks school curriculums, selects an unpopular winner in a poetry competition, and gains confidence of the shyest and the most stubborn with innate diplomacy. He graciously accepts endless inaccuracies in the spelling and pronunciation of his name--"he's called Mr Grim and he's a spectre"--becomes much sought-after and admired by the county's matrons, and his heart is set a'flutter by a pretty, unmarried headmistress with whom he longs to be more intimately acquainted.

A good-natured, entertaining storyteller obviously committed to his calling, Mr Phinn's occasional inaccuracy in rendition in no way detracts from his warm and enjoyable reading. --Running time approx 3 hours --Lynn Took

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"Gervase Phinn's memoirs have made him a hero in school staff-rooms." --Daily Telegraph

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  • PublisherMichael Joseph
  • Publication date1998
  • ISBN 10 0718142640
  • ISBN 13 9780718142643
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages288
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